On 9/16/05, Poor, Edmund W Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
The only difference is [someone] claimed the right to stop all merges until the end of the 5-day vote.
That is unusual. You should be able to merge during the AfD, and this should be taken into account by the closer. You'd have to leave the AfD tag around. Don't get phased by the rule lawyers, if what you do makes sense there shouldn't be much of a problem.